This is mostly for people in the southern half of Britain!
Just wondering - did everyone get away without personal injury or damage to property in the storm?
There were high winds in the early morning around my house in the early hours but no damage, although our apple tree no longer has any apples on it!
The effects seem to have been very localised and random, with a double-decker bus thrown onto its side just 5 miles away. That was in a relatively
sheltered flat valley, not exactly a wide-open heathland.
The only other annoyance was a 45 minute power cut early this morning, but that's hardly life-threatening (for me, anyway).
What storm!!?!
Apart from some wheelie bins and a few puddles i really don't see what the panic was about!
On the plus side, because the weather people scared the crap out of everyone, the roads were pretty empty this morning!
I have a rather large snapped branch on our oak tree hanging on by a few strands supported by the branches below just above the garage roof. Hopefully the wind will die down so I can get up there with the chain saw before it falls in an unfavourable direction.
I'm about 30 miles south of Birmingham, and other than some fallen leaves, it's hardly been a storm.. A few big-ish puddles on some roads,
but if my Prius can get through without drowning, it's not exactly a flood.
Mind you, this coming from someone who went out for a stroll in Boston during Hurricane Irene a few years ago - was amazing, I think there were about
3 other people on the streets! 
Appreciate that the south coast might be a bit worse though! Don't park near a tree!
I am just a few miles from the Needles (where they recorded a 99mph gust), and I slept through it all. Locally, there is little to see apart from a few downed branches/trees and a lot of leaves on the ground.... A bit of an anticlimax really!
It's shut down Schipol airport today which is a huge pita since I was due to fly 9.25am - thought I'd lucked out not going via LHR, but
nooooo.
Off via Paris CDG tomorrow...
3 blocked roads on my way to work this morning. Including a very smashed car that drove into one of the trees.
5am this morning I was being about all over the place on the m2.
IT WAS TERRIBLE!
I had to pick up BOTH my wheelie bins, and contend with ONE roundabout that the traffic lights were broken - I dont know how I made it to work
alive.
On a positive note, the lights keep flickering it at work so I hoping that spreads to the mains so I can go home early.
Our office is three quarters empty, mainly because it's largely train commuters. The only thing I lost in the 'storm' last night was a decent nights sleep, mainly because something outside my window was making a delightful whistling noise!
We've had a fair bit of damage, 3 holes in the roof from tiles falling and hitting other parts of roof, big tree down and it's smashed some
glass and taken out a big metal shutter door, also no power
Also the old barn with the shutter door has shifted in the wind and will now be demolished and rebuilt, so we're going to be fighting the damage
for some time! 
I'll try and post pics later
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Nice blue sky's here, just on cutting the grass..
Not so bad in South Glos, these things always happen on my days off, I was looking forward to a trip to Hereford but the roads are closed apparantly.
Im with Pekwah1, and live 15 miles from him
What storm ?
Twas a bit windy, and we have lots of leaves twigs etc but that was it
A real shame that a couple of people died,
All ok here.
I'm less than 5 miles from you Steve but lost the felt from my shed roof and have been without power for 12 hours.
Going a whole day without a hot cup of tea has been traumatic! Still no news on when power will return.
Off to buy batteries and candles...
Has there been a storm? 
Just water, and lots of it. Drains are backed up, sewage is unpleasant, but I'll give Anglian Water another day before I call to get it all unblocked. They're probably a bit overstretched and I don't mind defacating in the garden.
I was expecting to get into work today and be flooded (excuse the pun) with phone calls from our tenants complaining about leaking, flooding and
damaged property. However we have only had 4 phone calls! 2 leaking roofs 1 flooded utility and 1 property with no power. I didn't even notice
any wind, it was completely still at about 6 this morning just had quite a lot of rain and this was in the West Midlands. Looks like the south got hit
a lot harder though.
Matt
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Originally posted by Slimy38
Our office is three quarters empty, mainly because it's largely train commuters.
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I think some of you southerners have been experiencing what we in the north call summer!!
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Originally posted by ashg
I have a rather large snapped branch on our oak tree hanging on by a few strands supported by the branches below just above the garage roof. Hopefully the wind will die down so I can get up there with the chain saw before it falls in an unfavourable direction.
Good one Ash, glad it worked out !!
Power cut from 6am to about 1pm here and the interweb's been dog slow all day. Other than that and a lot of leaves, nothing much going on.
Spot of Rain and the Wheelie bin fell over, that's about it....
I was on-call last night and thought it might be a good earner, but i got nowt
Had to close the window to shut out the noise, then roll over SWMBO as she was doing a walrus impression....other than that - peaceful night...
Nothing at all up here and my 10 year old son's trip with Trafford Youth Orchestra by coach to Dover and then crossing to Calais this morning was apparently uneventful and not too rough for him; ferry departure was delayed a little.
Not felt a thing, here in Delhi.....